Watch this long and silly CNN piece with no connection to reality at all,
or to the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations and
enslavement. Why didn't the silly reporter ask Nihad Awad about his
attendance with the annihilationist Ahmadinejad at the OIC sharia summit in
Cairo this week? And the BBC did a full hour
of coverage on the BBC.

The media's love affair with the Hamas-CAIR #myjihad campaign continues unabated. The New York Daily News ran this lengthy puff piece on this insulting and bizarre propaganda program -- no mention of my jihad in getting #myjihad campaign up in Chicago, San Francisco and DC. Chicago caved (because those fascists had to respect my First Amendment rights), San Francisco is still deciding and DC is demanding our ads have a disclaimer, while the Hamas-CAIR ads do not. That is discrimination.

Look at this NY Daily News piece. They run every Hamas-CAIR ad in the series but not one of the real jihad campaign (ours).

The
‘My Jihad’ campaign portrays jihad as a personal, internal struggle to
become better people. But the movement, sponsored by Chicago’s chapter
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has inspired a
counter-campaign to connect the word to violence and terrorism. Carol Kuruvilla
/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 5:42 PM

myjihad.org

"My Jihad" is a
campaign to reclaim the word "jihad." It began as a reaction to ads
placed in New York City subways that connected the term to violence and
terror. Here, Saleha Jabeen (right) poses with her friend in a #MyJihad advertisement.

A group of Muslim activists is fighting a battle of words to reclaim
“jihad” from Muslim extremists and critics who they say have wrongly
used the term to justify violence and discrimination.

Organizers of the “My Jihad” campaign say that jihad is about personal
struggle -- a constant, private striving to be good, just, and
passionate human beings. Campaigners have promoted this definition of
“jihad” through social media and through transit ads running on buses
and trains in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. But along with
thousands of positive responses, the effort has drawn the disapproval
of anti-jihadists, including Pamela Geller, a conservative blogger who has launched a counter-campaign.

The “My Jihad” movement was born in December as a reaction to ads that
Geller placed New York City subways with the support of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative. One of the ads read, “In any war between the
civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support
Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

Geller’s ad campaign, especially its use of the word “savage,” prompted
an immediate response from the Muslim community across America. Ahmed
Rehab, the executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), took to Facebook and asked
fellow Muslims to share their personal struggles -- their personal
jihads. Attracting volunteers, he received an overwhelming response and
fueled a donor-funded ad campaign.

myjihad.com

The campaign has encouraged a heavy volume of responses on Twitter from those who share what the word means to them.

In one of the ads released by “My Jihad,” 26-year-old Saleha Jabeen
poses with her friend Dannis Matteson, a fellow grad student at
Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union. Jabeen’s ad reads, “My Jihad is to
build friendships across the aisle” and speaks to her life’s calling.
She’s studying interreligious dialogue.

“Jihad is not only a Muslim thing,” Jabeen, an intern for CAIR-Chicago,
told the Daily News. “Me and my Christian friend, when we try to do the
right thing for peace, humanity, morality -- we’re doing jihad. We all
do it every day.”

"My Christian friend"?
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk." -- quran 5:51

The “My Jihad” campaign has placed ads in the transit systems of Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and Chicago.

But it’s also prompted a backlash from people who interpret the word very differently.

myjihad.org

Angie Emara lost her child to Hunter's Syndrome in 2009. She's turned her private grief into a public declaration.

Geller and her supporters define “jihad” as a religious war against
people who don’t believe in Islam. Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries
bolster that viewpoint, listing jihad as a “holy war waged on behalf of
Islam as a religious duty” before offering a second definition of
“jihad” as a “personal struggle.”

Geller has released images
from a planned counter-campaign. Geller’s ads quote Osama bin Laden and
the failed Times Square car bomber Faisal Shazad [sic]. The website
myjihad.us redirects to the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s
website. Geller has also adopted the “#myjihad” hashtag.

“All these people are defining what they think jihad is all about. But
it gets to a point where enough is enough. I can speak for myself,” she
said.

Tweets like the one quoted above -- "“#MyJihad in Turkey: Christian woman repeatedly stabbed..." -- those aren't people "defining what they think jihad is all about." That's people talking about real jihad, where the perpetrators of the violence use the word "jihad" to describe what they're doing. This story is treating real jihad as an aberration and this cynical propaganda campaign as the genuine article.

Wrestling the word back from extremists will be an “uphill” battle, Rehab told CNN. But it’s a necessary one.

“The majority of Muslims did not step in to say, 'No, this is our
faith, and we are going to claim it,’” Rehab told CNN. “You are trying
to undo accumulation of misperception and mispractice -- misperception
by non-Muslims and mispractice by some Muslims.”

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Watch this long and silly CNN piece with no connection to reality at all,
or to the 270 million victims of jihadi wars, land appropriations and
enslavement. Why didn't the silly reporter ask Nihad Awad about his
attendance with the annihilationist Ahmadinejad at the OIC sharia summit in
Cairo this week? And the BBC did a full hour
of coverage on the BBC.

The media's love affair with the Hamas-CAIR #myjihad campaign continues unabated. The New York Daily News ran this lengthy puff piece on this insulting and bizarre propaganda program -- no mention of my jihad in getting #myjihad campaign up in Chicago, San Francisco and DC. Chicago caved (because those fascists had to respect my First Amendment rights), San Francisco is still deciding and DC is demanding our ads have a disclaimer, while the Hamas-CAIR ads do not. That is discrimination.

Look at this NY Daily News piece. They run every Hamas-CAIR ad in the series but not one of the real jihad campaign (ours).

The
‘My Jihad’ campaign portrays jihad as a personal, internal struggle to
become better people. But the movement, sponsored by Chicago’s chapter
of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, has inspired a
counter-campaign to connect the word to violence and terrorism. Carol Kuruvilla
/
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Tuesday, February 5, 2013, 5:42 PM

myjihad.org

"My Jihad" is a
campaign to reclaim the word "jihad." It began as a reaction to ads
placed in New York City subways that connected the term to violence and
terror. Here, Saleha Jabeen (right) poses with her friend in a #MyJihad advertisement.

A group of Muslim activists is fighting a battle of words to reclaim
“jihad” from Muslim extremists and critics who they say have wrongly
used the term to justify violence and discrimination.

Organizers of the “My Jihad” campaign say that jihad is about personal
struggle -- a constant, private striving to be good, just, and
passionate human beings. Campaigners have promoted this definition of
“jihad” through social media and through transit ads running on buses
and trains in Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. But along with
thousands of positive responses, the effort has drawn the disapproval
of anti-jihadists, including Pamela Geller, a conservative blogger who has launched a counter-campaign.

The “My Jihad” movement was born in December as a reaction to ads that
Geller placed New York City subways with the support of the American
Freedom Defense Initiative. One of the ads read, “In any war between the
civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support
Israel. Defeat Jihad.”

Geller’s ad campaign, especially its use of the word “savage,” prompted
an immediate response from the Muslim community across America. Ahmed
Rehab, the executive director of the Chicago chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago), took to Facebook and asked
fellow Muslims to share their personal struggles -- their personal
jihads. Attracting volunteers, he received an overwhelming response and
fueled a donor-funded ad campaign.

myjihad.com

The campaign has encouraged a heavy volume of responses on Twitter from those who share what the word means to them.

In one of the ads released by “My Jihad,” 26-year-old Saleha Jabeen
poses with her friend Dannis Matteson, a fellow grad student at
Chicago’s Catholic Theological Union. Jabeen’s ad reads, “My Jihad is to
build friendships across the aisle” and speaks to her life’s calling.
She’s studying interreligious dialogue.

“Jihad is not only a Muslim thing,” Jabeen, an intern for CAIR-Chicago,
told the Daily News. “Me and my Christian friend, when we try to do the
right thing for peace, humanity, morality -- we’re doing jihad. We all
do it every day.”

"My Christian friend"?
"O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for friends. They are friends one to another. He among you who taketh them for friends is (one) of them. Lo! Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk." -- quran 5:51

The “My Jihad” campaign has placed ads in the transit systems of Washington, D.C.; San Francisco; and Chicago.

But it’s also prompted a backlash from people who interpret the word very differently.

myjihad.org

Angie Emara lost her child to Hunter's Syndrome in 2009. She's turned her private grief into a public declaration.

Geller and her supporters define “jihad” as a religious war against
people who don’t believe in Islam. Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries
bolster that viewpoint, listing jihad as a “holy war waged on behalf of
Islam as a religious duty” before offering a second definition of
“jihad” as a “personal struggle.”

Geller has released images
from a planned counter-campaign. Geller’s ads quote Osama bin Laden and
the failed Times Square car bomber Faisal Shazad [sic]. The website
myjihad.us redirects to the American Freedom Defense Initiative’s
website. Geller has also adopted the “#myjihad” hashtag.

“All these people are defining what they think jihad is all about. But
it gets to a point where enough is enough. I can speak for myself,” she
said.

Tweets like the one quoted above -- "“#MyJihad in Turkey: Christian woman repeatedly stabbed..." -- those aren't people "defining what they think jihad is all about." That's people talking about real jihad, where the perpetrators of the violence use the word "jihad" to describe what they're doing. This story is treating real jihad as an aberration and this cynical propaganda campaign as the genuine article.

Wrestling the word back from extremists will be an “uphill” battle, Rehab told CNN. But it’s a necessary one.

“The majority of Muslims did not step in to say, 'No, this is our
faith, and we are going to claim it,’” Rehab told CNN. “You are trying
to undo accumulation of misperception and mispractice -- misperception
by non-Muslims and mispractice by some Muslims.”